Marsh, Irving – Best Sports Stories 1959

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Marsh, Irving ‘Best Sports Stories 1959′ 1959 1st ed. VG with a good price-clipped dust jacket.

Best Sports Stories 1959 Edition: A Panorama of the 1958 Sports Year is a hardcover anthology edited by Irving T. Marsh and Edward Ehre, published in 1959 by E.P. Dutton & Co..
This installment in the legendary annual series aggregates the nation’s premier sports journalism from the 1958 calendar year. The volume captures a transformative era in American sports, weaving together award-winning newspaper reporting, magazine features, and a specialized section dedicated to the year’s best action sports photography.

Anthology Story Highlights:
The 1958 sports year featured several iconic milestones and dramatic undercurrents that serve as the focal points for the collection’s top stories:
• The 1958 NFL Championship Game: The book features definitive sports reporting on the December 28, 1958, clash between the Baltimore Colts and the New York Giants. Widely historicized as “The Greatest Game Ever Played,” this sudden-death overtime thriller captivated a national television audience and launched pro football into the modern television era.
• The Yankees’ World Series Revenge: Top-tier baseball journalism chronicles the 1958 World Series, tracking the New York Yankees as they successfully mounted a dramatic 3-to-1 series comeback to avenge their prior year’s loss against Hank Aaron and the Milwaukee Braves.
• Herb Elliott’s Sub-Four Breakthrough: The track and field section highlights the incredible feats of Australian middle-distance runner Herb Elliott, who dominated 1958 by shattering the world record for the mile run with an astonishing 3:54.5 time.
• The Dawn of the Sugar Ray Robinson vs. Carmen Basilio Rivalry: The boxing coverage recounts the brutal, split-decision middleweight championship rematch where Sugar Ray Robinson reclaimed his title from Carmen Basilio in front of a roaring crowd at Chicago Stadium.